ELA+5+Lesson+7

Topic Lesson 7: //**Old Yeller**//

Common Core Standards RL5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing ornspecific details in the text. W5.3b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. W5.3d Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify characters' actions, words, and thoughts in text. 2. Students will analyze how character traits impact the plot development in a story. 3. Students will write a response poem.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poetry
 * __ Sounder, __ by William H. Armstrong
 * __ Cowhand:The True Story of a Working Cowboy, __ by Fred Gipson
 * __ Dogs, __ by Seymour Simon
 * "Home on the Range," by Brewster Higley

Resource Links
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 * video //**Old Yeller**//

Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 187. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "No Time to Think" or "Illustrate It."
 * ** Making Connections, ** Student Book, page 191: Text to Text and Text to the World

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 73-74 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T127 and R18 3. Weekly Test 7.4-7.5

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